A couple problems

Michael Whapples mikster4 at msn.com
Wed Nov 1 13:34:34 EST 2006


>I am unfamiliar with fedora, so either you need to find out what the 
>equivalent tool to start-stop-daemon is. Alternatively you may be able to 
>find a copy of it if you google for it. May be some one who knows fedora 
>could help with this.
>
> Are you sure that there is not a startup script provided though?
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "guy schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: A couple problems
>
>
>> Hey there Michael, thanks for the response.  I don't have a program 
>> called start-stop-daemon. I did a whereis, and got nothing.  Any other 
>> way to start festival in the background?
>>
>> Thanks again in advance for the help,
>>
>>
>> Guy
>>
>>
>> At 03:54 AM 10/31/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>> > Hello,
>>>For espeak, if compiling, you probably need the devel rpm for portaudio.
>>>
>>>For festival, just executing "festival --server" will not return to the
>>>shell, so scripts cannot continue. The solution is to use 
>>>start-stop-daemon
>>>starting festival in the background, if festival was from a rpm you 
>>>probably
>>>have a script installed in the startup script directory, you just need 
>>>that
>>>to be executed on start up (I don't know how you do this on fedora).
>>>
>>>From
>>>Michael Whapples
> 





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